"Jonathan Berry" <berryja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >This is kind of an old question, but I just have not gotten around to >asking it. Gnome in FC5 had protections against programs stealing >focus. This seems to be absent, or much reduced in FC6. I know there >was some outcry against the extent of the non-focus stealing (like >launching programs from the terminal). But I rather liked the focus >stealing prevention and programs popping up in FC6 and taking the >focus has become annoying. What happened exactly to these >protections? Were they removed/lessened upstream? Or was this a >reaction by Redhat to the outcry from FC5? Or was it unintentional? >Just curious. Well, and tossing my vote in favor of focus stealing >prevention :-). Due to the outcry it was made configurable upstream, with strict focus mode off by default. Here's the Gnome bugzilla entry where it was all discussed: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326159 You can revert to the behaviour that was originally in FC5 (metacity 2.14.0) with this command: gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/focus_new_windows \ --type string strict (or using gconf-editor). Ron
